Are the Japanese really descended from China?

The main ethnic groups in Japan are Yamato ethnic groups, as well as Ainu, Ryukyu, Auroch, Neva, North Korea and other ethnic groups. Today we are going to discuss whether Yamato, the main Japanese nation, is a descendant of China?

Nowadays, the academic circles generally believe that the Japanese today are a hybrid of rope literati and yayoi.

The oldest Japanese skeleton was found, belonging to the Ice Age about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. It is generally believed that the rope literati first arrived in the Japanese archipelago during the Ice Age. Before the ice age, the climate in northern Siberia was warmer, with large animals and plants growing. Of course, Siberia is colder now and there are fewer people.

The rope literati lived in the ice age from northern Siberia through Sakhalin Island in Hokkaido and then into the Japanese archipelago. During the ice age, the strait between Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido and the Japanese archipelago could be crossed on foot.

At the same time, Austronesians, Vietnamese and southwest barbarians crossing the South China Sea brought China's burning cultivation culture and rice to Japan. The burning culture is called Zhao Ye forest culture in academic circles.

The so-called forest culture in Zhao Ye is characterized by planting wild taro, rice, eating fermented food, black wings, lacquerware, building fences, tattooing, wearing clothes, getting married and raising cormorants.

This cultural belt ranges from the southern foothills of the Himalayas to Kansai, centering on China and Yunnan. Because the plants in this cultural belt are mainly subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest, it is also called Zhao Ye forest culture. Rice cultivation in Japan is related to this culture. Yunnan, China is also considered as the birthplace of the Japanese.

This is the general situation of Japanese islanders in the rope-language era. To put it simply, the rope writers are from Siberia, the Japanese are from Yunnan, China, and there are two groups of people in the Japanese archipelago, one from Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido, and the other from the southwest and southeast of China.

After the end of the rope era, the Yayoi people entered the Yayoi era, and the Yayoi people were new Mongolians who migrated from Chinese mainland and Korea to the Japanese archipelago. Most of the Japanese in Kansai are descendants of the Yayoi people, while Kanto is descendants of the rope literati (old Mongols). They have mixed blood many times to form today's Japanese. The basic composition and language of the Yamato people began to take shape in 400 BC.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, many nationalities in the Central Plains of Chinese mainland immigrated to Japan. In Japan, they are called "Dulairen". Of course, Chinese immigrants also include overseas immigrants from the Asian continent such as North Korea, Vietnam and Southeast Asia, but most of them are Han people in the Central Plains. These people like to claim to be descendants of Qin Shihuang or Emperor Gaozu, but in fact they are not descendants of Qin Shihuang and Emperor Gaozu, but Han people in the Central Plains. Most of them crossed the sea to Japan through the Korean peninsula to escape the war in the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties.

It was not until the ferry people arrived in Japan that Japan really entered the era of civilization. These highly civilized ferrymen spread the knowledge of farming techniques, civil construction techniques and agricultural civilization such as firing pottery, forging iron and textile to the Japanese archipelago. Japan's rice culture, although developed to a certain extent in the Yayoi period and the later period of rope pattern, really became popular after the ferry people arrived in Japan.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the migration of Central Plains people to Japan did not stop, and this process continued until the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, until the eve of modern times.

This is the relationship between Japanese and China people. Among them, only Dulairen can be regarded as a true descendant of the Han people, and Suowenren belongs to the old Mongolian race in Siberia and is closely related to the Ainu people in Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido in Russia today. Yayoi people are closely related to ethnic minorities in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia. The Japanese are closely related to the ethnic minorities in China and Yunnan, and ancient Japanese were formed in the 4th century BC at the latest. After the 4th century A.D., the Han nationality in the Central Plains of China began to immigrate to Japan on a large scale. Japan began to form the earliest country in Qin and Han Dynasties, and began to contact with the central dynasty of China, which was once included in the tributary system. However, after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Japan basically broke away from the tribute system of the central dynasty.

The appearance of modern Japanese people is different from that of China people, and they are not entirely descendants of China people.